Protégée Skill Build: Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Monday, April 12th 20215:00 PM to 6:00 PM
In this session, Moren Lévesque will share her research on new business venture pitches as well as her experience with listening to hundreds of these pitches. The hour will begin with a 30 minute discussion on tips for making a convincing pitch to customers, and suppliers, or your employer’s high-level management team. This discussion will be followed by a 20 minute session in small breakout rooms, where everyone can pitch while considering these tips. Moren will visit some of the breakout rooms to identify volunteers to give a 90 second pitch in front of the entire group during the final 10 minutes.
Please note this session is exclusively for Protégées in the Professional Mentorship program. For information about the program please visit the program page.
Moren Lévesque is Professor and the CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship as well as the Co-Director of Entrepreneurial Studies at York University Schulich School of Business. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises, and a Beedie Family Visiting Fellow at Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business. Moren holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of British Columbia and M.Sc., B.Sc. in Mathematics from Université Laval. She has been on the faculty at Université Laval, Carnegie Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Humboldt Universität, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Waterloo as a Canada Research Chair in Innovation & Technical Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on decision making in new business formation, particularly market entry decisions, funding decisions, and firm growth decisions. Moren currently serves as Editor for the journal Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and she served from 2010 to 2020 as Senior Editor for the journal Production and Operations Management, and from 2013 to 2017 as Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.